Montgomery Slaughter

Montgomery Slaughter (21 January 1818-7 December 1897) was the Mayor of Fredericksburg, Virginia during the American Civil War.

Biography
Montgomery Slaughter was born in Culpeper County, Virginia on 21 January 1818, and he later moved to Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County. He was elected Mayor during the American Civil War, and, in August 1862, Slaughter and 18 other members of the city's elite were arrested by Federal authorities and imprisoned at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington DC for treason. In November 1862, Union general Ambrose Burnside sent Slaughter to deliver Burnside's terms for Fredericksburg's conditional surrender ahead of the Battle of Fredericksburg, and Slaughter oversaw the city's evacuation.